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Beginning of December

It is late Saturday morning. Marie is at the Quilting Guild's Christmas brunch and quilting bee so I am on puppy duty. Not much...

Dec 11, 202210 min read

November 28

Snowing like the dickens today. Probably 3 - 5 cm last night. Forecast is for 10 -15 cm today and 5 - 10 cm tomorrow. Will have to...

Nov 27, 20228 min read

November 20

The biggest news of the week was easily the Saturday arrival of Ember. We made a day trip to Edmonton to pick her up, a seven week old...

Nov 20, 202211 min read

Mid November

Wow, it's been three weeks since the last blog entry. It has certainly been a busy three weeks, so there hasn't been a lot of modelling....

Nov 13, 20225 min read

Late October

It's apparently 24C in Ottawa today. It's 2.4C (note the decimal) in Fort McMurray. We got a dusting of snow last night, vs the dump...

Oct 23, 20225 min read

Mid October

It has been a rather quiet week. Christine and Daniel left on Monday, and all the kids are now back to school. The weather has...

Oct 16, 20225 min read

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We are fortunate to have Christine and Daniel home for the holiday weekend. Nicholas stayed out east to...

Oct 9, 20226 min read

September 25

My father is in hospital this weekend. He was taken to Rockyview by ambulance on Friday, suffering from severe dehydration. He had been...

Sep 25, 20228 min read

September 18

My Dad isn't feeling well, so I will start out by wishing that he gets well soon. It has been a quiet week. I think the most exciting...

Sep 18, 20225 min read

September

We are now officially empty nesters again. Christine headed off to Ottawa today to finish her final year of Interior Design. After...

Sep 11, 20227 min read

Back to school!

It is Saturday evening as I write this, just after 7 pm. It is a very pleasant 27C, allowing me to write this while sitting on the deck....

Sep 4, 202211 min read

End of August

Time continues to fly by. Remarkably, it is coming up on the end of August, and its been almost a month since the last blog entry. ...

Aug 21, 20224 min read

End of July

It doesn't feel like there is much to update on this week. The weather was generally very nice - warm but with the exception of last...

Aug 1, 20225 min read

Happy birthday Marie!

Happy birthday to my beautiful wife! Her birthday was July 21. Lucky girl gets two celebrations! She was in Calgary on her actual...

Jul 24, 20226 min read

Happy Canada Day weekend

Happy Canada day weekend! And happy 4th of July weekend to Dave. As is now traditional, Marie had the front yard all decked out in...

Jul 3, 20224 min read

June 26

It has been a lazy Sunday morning. The forecast is for thunderstorms later on, but right now the sun is out, the birds are signing and...

Jun 26, 20223 min read

Happy Father's day!

Happy Father's day to my father. This is my 66th blog posting, having started back in March 2021. The blog was originally created to...

Jun 19, 20225 min read

June 12

Happy birthday Mom! I hope you have a great day. It has been a couple of weeks since the last blog post. The warmer weather seems to...

Jun 12, 20226 min read

May 29 - Already the end of May

It is remarkable how quickly time has flown. It seems like it was Christmas only yesterday. Copper is doing well this week. It seems...

May 29, 20226 min read

May 22 - the May long weekend

Hello! It's the May long weekend! I have such fond memories of the May long weekend. It was the first three day weekend of the...

May 22, 20225 min read

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